In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or stabbed by steel sliced from the hulls.
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published:16 Apr 2014

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This feature documentary profiles a bustling Indian shantytown where 40,000 people live and work in the most primitive conditions.

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The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns on his blow torch and focuses solely on weakening the structure of the very ship he stands on; right now he is working on the metal holdings around the mast. He stands away cautiously as the weakened mast is hooked on to a whinge and it's pulled down. The bulking mast hits the bottom of the hull, the boom reaches his ears and touches his skin, it reminds him a little bit of his village, of his childhood, when he would drop a metal bucket in well to collect water. With no time for nostalgia he gets back to cutting another part of the hull, he does this every day for 8-10 hours; his safety net is his experience.
He is one of the 66,000 workers who work on the ship breaking yards at Alang in Gujarat and Darukhana in Mumbai. They migrate from UP, Orissa, Bihar and various other states across India in search of employment and better life. The job of these workers is to strip the raw materials from these ships and sell them to various integral industries i.e. construction, steel mills, to name a few.
The ship breaking industry as always been surrounded with myths and controversies. With many reports in the media mostly giving it a broad tag of "hazardous to environment" which is far from the truth, what ship-breaking actually does is reuse valuable raw materials striped from a dead ship, which would end up being more hazardous if left in the sea.
The primary pressing issue of ship breaking which gets skirted is its workers. The process of ship-breaking requires workers from the start to the end. Often to skirt costs; untrained contractual workers will be hired, safety equipment will be ignored and benefits will be skimmed.
In this documentary 'Echoes of Ship-Breaking' we'll be entering through the backdoor of the ship-breaking industry to see:
• How the industry processes labour and ships
• How ships are brought in and labourers are hired, and how it starts
• The industry's questionable history regarding worker laws
• Why and how ship breaking reached India
• How ship breaking affects the environment
• Breaking down the process of ship-breaking in India
• Its contribution to India and the future of ship breaking in India

published:17 Jul 2014

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Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Workers though, enjoy none of the benefits of that profit; wages are barely enough to live on and there are no health and safety regulations to protect them. Injuries are a frequent occurrence and even death is not uncommon.
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We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is an obscure & lucrative business for a few known as Ship breaking, Countless numbers of used ships are sent to developing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey where they are systematically broken down by the cheap labor hired by these ship breakers . 'The WireNest...Life In Mumbai's Ship-Breaking Yards' is a documentary on the condition of these workers, the majority who live in filthy and hazardous circumstances .This documentary specifically gives an insight on the conditions of the ship breaking workers in Mumbai the city which is the hub for many activities known and unknown. To build awareness and give an insight on the deteriorating conditions of the workers. And the shocking lack of human consideration given to them. Take note as this time we go even deeper into the graveyard taking a closer glimpse into the hardships and tragedies these workers face, doing their job while constantly being under real mortal danger .The story of a family man, a lady who lost her family, a family who got compensation for their dead son, and the result of the workers strike for a fellow worker. A honest glimpse into the cogs that run the ship breaking industry.

published:24 Jan 2013

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There aren't too many places left in the world where the practice of ship breaking—scrapping old ships for metal—can still exist. These days, environmental and labor regulations in the developed world have displaced the practice to India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where cargo carriers are salvaged for their steel.
The largest vessels wind up on the shores of the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, where the industry has become a vital part of the country's urbanization. It employs roughly 200,000 workers and supplies the country with 80 percent of its steel. Ship breakers beach and dismantle vessels daily wearing flip­-flops and T-shirts. It's no easy task, considering ships are constructed to withstand the elements for the 30 years they spend operating on international waters. We decided to check it out.
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Gaddani, Sindh Province:
1. Wide pan of Gaddani breakers yard to "Sea Giant" tanker
2. Mid shot of sparks from oxy-acetylene cutter emerging through side of ship's hull
3. Close-up of cutting flame
4. Mid shot breaker wearing dark welding goggles
5. Mid shot cutting
6. Wide of men cutting with oxy-acetylene torches inside hull of Sea Giant tanker
7. Mid shot ship breaker at work
8. Cut section of Sea Giant' s hull torn off into sea
9. Wide of crane moving steel sections
10. Mid shot of breakers at work
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Fataullah Shah, ship-breaker:
"I've been in this business for the last 10 years. Now we have a lot of work. Before there wasn't much on. We are very happy and thank God we have a lot of work."
12. Wide of "Sea Giant" tanker
13. Mid shot cable passing through pulley
14. Mid shot winch being operated
15. Close up pulley
16. Mid shot section of ship towed through sea
17. Mid shot prow of a ship
18. Mid shot breakers yard workers seen through porthole
19. Wide shot breakers yard
20. Mid shot power shovel moving cut metal
21. Mid shot men through porthole
22. Mid shot breakers yard
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard:
"We have made many technical advances. We can break a very large ship in about 3 to 4 months time. The ship breaking is always been running depending on the availability of vessels and recently the demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
24. Wide of plane flying over wreck of oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit'
25. Long shot 'Tasman Spirit' tanker
26. Wide of oil spill clean up operation continuing on beach
27. Mid shot oil spill clean up workers
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Pakistan's ship-breaking industry has received a massive boost thanks to the arrival of world's second biggest oil tanker at a breakers yard close to the southern port city of Karachi.
This breakers yard on the Gaddani coastline, 40km (25 miles), east of Karachi, is the final resting place for the juggernaut supertanker 'The SeaGiant'.
Its massive capacity, 555,000 Dwt (deadweight tons), made it the second biggest oil tanker on earth.
The huge task of dismantling the French-built 'Sea Giant' is expected to revitalize Pakistan's ship-breaking industry and
create more jobs.
The industry on the edge of this sleepy town on the Arabian sea has been struggling to revive itself from a bearish spell in business.
During the 1990s the Gaddani industry broke 40 ships in a year, but business has dwindled to just over a dozen ships a year now.
The arrival of the gigantic supertanker, which used to carry half-a-million-tons of crude to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia,
is just break the industry was looking for.
M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard said that the recent "demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
The arrival of the giant ship comes only weeks after Pakistan suffered its worst environmental disaster when an oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit' spilled thousands of tons of crude on the sea-shores near the Karachi port.
The government is seeking 1 (b) billion US dollars in damages for the oil pollution caused from that disaster.
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published:21 Jul 2015

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This is amazing, everybody knows the shipbreaking yard in Alang, India but there is also one in Gaddani or Gadani beach in Pakistan. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is a centre for the breaking up of derelict ocean-going vessels for scrap. The yard is located in Gadani, Pakistan, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi.
This is a compilation from the documentary "Workingman's Death", see http://www.workingmansdeath.com
In the 1980s,the Gadani yard was described as the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in India and Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with the Gadani yard producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced twenty years ago. A reduction in taxes on scrap metal led to a modest resurgence at the Yard, which now employs around 6,000 workers.
In this clip we see in about 7 minutes how a ship is placed on the beach and breaking apart.

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Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
1. Various of the ship 'Flag Supplier' being dismantled
2. A watchman sitting at the beach
3. Various of workers dismantling the ship
4. Close up of a mechanised pulley in action pulling piece of the ship
5. A piece of ship being pulled into the sea
6. Ship breakerAqeel Khan standing on the beach
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Aqeel Khan, ship breaker:
"Work used to be brisk at the Gadani ship yards and once around 300 to 350 workers used to work in a single ship-breaking yard. But things have changed over the last few years and now barely 50 workers are employed in a single yard because of the non-availability of vessels."
8. Wide of empty ship-breaking yard at Gadani
9. Various of labourers cutting up pieces of iron
10. SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Mehran Mohannad, ship breaker:
"I have come here from the north of the country to work but the work is not consistent here. When I do get a job I send all the money to my family but when there is no work it becomes very difficult to survive."
11. Various of ship breaking yard
Karachi, Pakistan
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) : Mohammad UmarMemon, PakistanShipBreakers' Association:
"Pakistan's used to be number 2 after Taiwan in ship breaking. But with the passage of time and changing market conditions the industry has become virtually dead. The prices of ships that we used to purchase at US$150 per metric ton from the international market rose sharply to US$350 to US$400 per metric ton because of buying from China and Bangladesh. Because of this situation the importing of ships became unfeasible. But after negotiations with the government (the Pakistan government slashed customs duty and income tax on the industry), they agreed to give some incentives to the industry and now the industry today is getting back on its feet."
Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
13. Various of workers cutting ship plate
14. Various of bulldozer shifting pieces of metal
15. Workers loading a truck.
16. Transport vehicle leaving the yard.
17. Transport vehicle on Mehran Coastal highway to Karachi
LEAD IN:
A once booming industry in Pakistan, ship breaking, has been through difficult times in past few years.
Recent talks between industry representatives and the government, however, has meant the ship yards are about to get a new lease of life.
STORYLINE:
The 'Flag Supplier' a 12-thousand ton ship, was manufactured in Japan in 1978, spent her years sailing the seven seas and recently arrived here on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
She has been retired and has come here to the Gadani ship yards in Pakistan for dismantling.
Huge pieces of the ship are removed little by little, bit by bit.
Ship breaking used to be a huge industry for Pakistan but has declined over the years following a surge in the international prices for second-hand ships.
The Pakistani industry was also not able to compete with China, Bangladesh and India, where duties are much lower and more industry-friendly.
Aqeel Khan has been working at the ship breaking yards for the past 20 years.
He says the industry is not what it was.
Gadani ship breaking yard, once a huge local employer is now virtually empty.
Hundreds of workers had to be laid off because there were simply no ships to dismantle.
Ship breaker Mehran Mohannad travelled from the north of Pakistan to work in ship breaking.
He says the work is good -- when he gets it.
But the industry is slowly but surely recovering.
Representatives from the ship-breaking industry have been able to convince the Pakistani government to provide some incentives to revive the industry.
The government abolished customs duty on the import of second-hand ships, meaning it was profitable for the ships to be dismantled at Gadani again.
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This short programme outlines the work of the Divest project, which was devised to promote clear unbiased information on the complexities of the ship dismantling industry so that stakeholders in the work can make informed decisions.

Indian labourers working at a ship breaking site in Alang, Gujarat, India.There are 185 plots to carry out the ship-recycling activities. This activity forms an industry by itself , as it provides around 30,000 jobs in Alang itself and generates steel totaling to millions of tons every year.
Alang beach (Gujurat, India) is one of the main ship breaking yards in the world.
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat, India.Alang is known as land of lakes and temples. However today Alang is known for being Asia's largest and world's one of the most important ShipRecyclingYard where various material like Melting scrap, CastIron Scrap (Beed), RollingMaterial, Profile Plates, Marine Machinery, Marine Engine, Diesel Generating Sets, Electric Motors and so many other items which are available in huge quantity of various qualities are mostly tested and certified by the world famous Lloyds Certifying Co. of England.
As per the international reports, more ships for demolition are expected for Alang as Ocean freight is very down. Presently, Alang & Sosiya has 94 ships under demolition.
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Ship breaking

Ship breaking or ship demolition is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap. It may also be known as ship dismantling, ship cracking, ship recycling, or ship disposal. Modern ships have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years before corrosion, metal fatigue and a lack of parts render them uneconomical to run. Ship breaking allows the materials from the ship, especially steel, to be recycled and made into new products. This lowers the demand for mined iron ore and reduces energy use in the steel-making process. Equipment on board the vessel can also be reused. While ship breaking is, in theory, sustainable, there are concerns about the use of poorer countries without stringent environmental legislation. It is also considered one of the world's most dangerous industries and very labour-intensive.

In 2012, roughly 1,250 ocean ships were broken down, and their average age is 26 years. In 2013, Asia made up 92% of the tonnage of vessels demolished, out of a world total of 29,052,000 tonnes. India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan have the highest market share and are global centres of ship breaking, with Alang being the largest 'ships graveyard' in the world. The largest sources of ships are states of China, Greece and Germany respectively, although there is a greater variation in the source of carriers versus their disposal. The ship breaking yards of the Indian subcontinent employ 100,000 workers as well as providing a large amount of indirect jobs. Water-craft produce 10% of India's steel needs.

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Track listing

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Where Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything | National Geographic

In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or stabbed by steel sliced from the hulls.
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1:12:52

Shipbreakers

Shipbreakers

Shipbreakers

This feature documentary profiles a bustling Indian shantytown where 40,000 people live and work in the most primitive conditions.

36:58

Echoes of Ship Breaking

Echoes of Ship Breaking

Echoes of Ship Breaking

The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns on his blow torch and focuses solely on weakening the structure of the very ship he stands on; right now he is working on the metal holdings around the mast. He stands away cautiously as the weakened mast is hooked on to a whinge and it's pulled down. The bulking mast hits the bottom of the hull, the boom reaches his ears and touches his skin, it reminds him a little bit of his village, of his childhood, when he would drop a metal bucket in well to collect water. With no time for nostalgia he gets back to cutting another part of the hull, he does this every day for 8-10 hours; his safety net is his experience.
He is one of the 66,000 workers who work on the ship breaking yards at Alang in Gujarat and Darukhana in Mumbai. They migrate from UP, Orissa, Bihar and various other states across India in search of employment and better life. The job of these workers is to strip the raw materials from these ships and sell them to various integral industries i.e. construction, steel mills, to name a few.
The ship breaking industry as always been surrounded with myths and controversies. With many reports in the media mostly giving it a broad tag of "hazardous to environment" which is far from the truth, what ship-breaking actually does is reuse valuable raw materials striped from a dead ship, which would end up being more hazardous if left in the sea.
The primary pressing issue of ship breaking which gets skirted is its workers. The process of ship-breaking requires workers from the start to the end. Often to skirt costs; untrained contractual workers will be hired, safety equipment will be ignored and benefits will be skimmed.
In this documentary 'Echoes of Ship-Breaking' we'll be entering through the backdoor of the ship-breaking industry to see:
• How the industry processes labour and ships
• How ships are brought in and labourers are hired, and how it starts
• The industry's questionable history regarding worker laws
• Why and how ship breaking reached India
• How ship breaking affects the environment
• Breaking down the process of ship-breaking in India
• Its contribution to India and the future of ship breaking in India

26:14

Scrapped: the deadly business of dismantling ships in Bangladesh

Scrapped: the deadly business of dismantling ships in Bangladesh

Scrapped: the deadly business of dismantling ships in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Workers though, enjoy none of the benefits of that profit; wages are barely enough to live on and there are no health and safety regulations to protect them. Injuries are a frequent occurrence and even death is not uncommon.
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22:05

The Wire Nest...life In Mumbai's Shipbreaking Yards

The Wire Nest...life In Mumbai's Shipbreaking Yards

The Wire Nest...life In Mumbai's Shipbreaking Yards

We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is an obscure & lucrative business for a few known as Ship breaking, Countless numbers of used ships are sent to developing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey where they are systematically broken down by the cheap labor hired by these ship breakers . 'The WireNest...Life In Mumbai's Ship-Breaking Yards' is a documentary on the condition of these workers, the majority who live in filthy and hazardous circumstances .This documentary specifically gives an insight on the conditions of the ship breaking workers in Mumbai the city which is the hub for many activities known and unknown. To build awareness and give an insight on the deteriorating conditions of the workers. And the shocking lack of human consideration given to them. Take note as this time we go even deeper into the graveyard taking a closer glimpse into the hardships and tragedies these workers face, doing their job while constantly being under real mortal danger .The story of a family man, a lady who lost her family, a family who got compensation for their dead son, and the result of the workers strike for a fellow worker. A honest glimpse into the cogs that run the ship breaking industry.

10:14

The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh: VICE INTL

The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh: VICE INTL

The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh: VICE INTL

There aren't too many places left in the world where the practice of ship breaking—scrapping old ships for metal—can still exist. These days, environmental and labor regulations in the developed world have displaced the practice to India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where cargo carriers are salvaged for their steel.
The largest vessels wind up on the shores of the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, where the industry has become a vital part of the country's urbanization. It employs roughly 200,000 workers and supplies the country with 80 percent of its steel. Ship breakers beach and dismantle vessels daily wearing flip­-flops and T-shirts. It's no easy task, considering ships are constructed to withstand the elements for the 30 years they spend operating on international waters. We decided to check it out.
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Gaddani, Sindh Province:
1. Wide pan of Gaddani breakers yard to "Sea Giant" tanker
2. Mid shot of sparks from oxy-acetylene cutter emerging through side of ship's hull
3. Close-up of cutting flame
4. Mid shot breaker wearing dark welding goggles
5. Mid shot cutting
6. Wide of men cutting with oxy-acetylene torches inside hull of Sea Giant tanker
7. Mid shot ship breaker at work
8. Cut section of Sea Giant' s hull torn off into sea
9. Wide of crane moving steel sections
10. Mid shot of breakers at work
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Fataullah Shah, ship-breaker:
"I've been in this business for the last 10 years. Now we have a lot of work. Before there wasn't much on. We are very happy and thank God we have a lot of work."
12. Wide of "Sea Giant" tanker
13. Mid shot cable passing through pulley
14. Mid shot winch being operated
15. Close up pulley
16. Mid shot section of ship towed through sea
17. Mid shot prow of a ship
18. Mid shot breakers yard workers seen through porthole
19. Wide shot breakers yard
20. Mid shot power shovel moving cut metal
21. Mid shot men through porthole
22. Mid shot breakers yard
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard:
"We have made many technical advances. We can break a very large ship in about 3 to 4 months time. The ship breaking is always been running depending on the availability of vessels and recently the demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
24. Wide of plane flying over wreck of oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit'
25. Long shot 'Tasman Spirit' tanker
26. Wide of oil spill clean up operation continuing on beach
27. Mid shot oil spill clean up workers
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's ship-breaking industry has received a massive boost thanks to the arrival of world's second biggest oil tanker at a breakers yard close to the southern port city of Karachi.
This breakers yard on the Gaddani coastline, 40km (25 miles), east of Karachi, is the final resting place for the juggernaut supertanker 'The SeaGiant'.
Its massive capacity, 555,000 Dwt (deadweight tons), made it the second biggest oil tanker on earth.
The huge task of dismantling the French-built 'Sea Giant' is expected to revitalize Pakistan's ship-breaking industry and
create more jobs.
The industry on the edge of this sleepy town on the Arabian sea has been struggling to revive itself from a bearish spell in business.
During the 1990s the Gaddani industry broke 40 ships in a year, but business has dwindled to just over a dozen ships a year now.
The arrival of the gigantic supertanker, which used to carry half-a-million-tons of crude to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia,
is just break the industry was looking for.
M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard said that the recent "demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
The arrival of the giant ship comes only weeks after Pakistan suffered its worst environmental disaster when an oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit' spilled thousands of tons of crude on the sea-shores near the Karachi port.
The government is seeking 1 (b) billion US dollars in damages for the oil pollution caused from that disaster.
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7:31

Shipbreakers in Gadani beach, Pakistan

Shipbreakers in Gadani beach, Pakistan

Shipbreakers in Gadani beach, Pakistan

This is amazing, everybody knows the shipbreaking yard in Alang, India but there is also one in Gaddani or Gadani beach in Pakistan. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is a centre for the breaking up of derelict ocean-going vessels for scrap. The yard is located in Gadani, Pakistan, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi.
This is a compilation from the documentary "Workingman's Death", see http://www.workingmansdeath.com
In the 1980s,the Gadani yard was described as the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in India and Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with the Gadani yard producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced twenty years ago. A reduction in taxes on scrap metal led to a modest resurgence at the Yard, which now employs around 6,000 workers.
In this clip we see in about 7 minutes how a ship is placed on the beach and breaking apart.

4:12

Pakistan's ship breaking industry picking up

Pakistan's ship breaking industry picking up

Pakistan's ship breaking industry picking up

Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
1. Various of the ship 'Flag Supplier' being dismantled
2. A watchman sitting at the beach
3. Various of workers dismantling the ship
4. Close up of a mechanised pulley in action pulling piece of the ship
5. A piece of ship being pulled into the sea
6. Ship breakerAqeel Khan standing on the beach
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Aqeel Khan, ship breaker:
"Work used to be brisk at the Gadani ship yards and once around 300 to 350 workers used to work in a single ship-breaking yard. But things have changed over the last few years and now barely 50 workers are employed in a single yard because of the non-availability of vessels."
8. Wide of empty ship-breaking yard at Gadani
9. Various of labourers cutting up pieces of iron
10. SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Mehran Mohannad, ship breaker:
"I have come here from the north of the country to work but the work is not consistent here. When I do get a job I send all the money to my family but when there is no work it becomes very difficult to survive."
11. Various of ship breaking yard
Karachi, Pakistan
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) : Mohammad UmarMemon, PakistanShipBreakers' Association:
"Pakistan's used to be number 2 after Taiwan in ship breaking. But with the passage of time and changing market conditions the industry has become virtually dead. The prices of ships that we used to purchase at US$150 per metric ton from the international market rose sharply to US$350 to US$400 per metric ton because of buying from China and Bangladesh. Because of this situation the importing of ships became unfeasible. But after negotiations with the government (the Pakistan government slashed customs duty and income tax on the industry), they agreed to give some incentives to the industry and now the industry today is getting back on its feet."
Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
13. Various of workers cutting ship plate
14. Various of bulldozer shifting pieces of metal
15. Workers loading a truck.
16. Transport vehicle leaving the yard.
17. Transport vehicle on Mehran Coastal highway to Karachi
LEAD IN:
A once booming industry in Pakistan, ship breaking, has been through difficult times in past few years.
Recent talks between industry representatives and the government, however, has meant the ship yards are about to get a new lease of life.
STORYLINE:
The 'Flag Supplier' a 12-thousand ton ship, was manufactured in Japan in 1978, spent her years sailing the seven seas and recently arrived here on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
She has been retired and has come here to the Gadani ship yards in Pakistan for dismantling.
Huge pieces of the ship are removed little by little, bit by bit.
Ship breaking used to be a huge industry for Pakistan but has declined over the years following a surge in the international prices for second-hand ships.
The Pakistani industry was also not able to compete with China, Bangladesh and India, where duties are much lower and more industry-friendly.
Aqeel Khan has been working at the ship breaking yards for the past 20 years.
He says the industry is not what it was.
Gadani ship breaking yard, once a huge local employer is now virtually empty.
Hundreds of workers had to be laid off because there were simply no ships to dismantle.
Ship breaker Mehran Mohannad travelled from the north of Pakistan to work in ship breaking.
He says the work is good -- when he gets it.
But the industry is slowly but surely recovering.
Representatives from the ship-breaking industry have been able to convince the Pakistani government to provide some incentives to revive the industry.
The government abolished customs duty on the import of second-hand ships, meaning it was profitable for the ships to be dismantled at Gadani again.
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8:39

Ship breaking and recycling with improved safety and technology

Ship breaking and recycling with improved safety and technology

Ship breaking and recycling with improved safety and technology

To find out more please visit: http://www.twi-global.com
This short programme outlines the work of the Divest project, which was devised to promote clear unbiased information on the complexities of the ship dismantling industry so that stakeholders in the work can make informed decisions.

World's largest ship breaking yard is in Gujarat - Alang

Indian labourers working at a ship breaking site in Alang, Gujarat, India.There are 185 plots to carry out the ship-recycling activities. This activity forms an industry by itself , as it provides around 30,000 jobs in Alang itself and generates steel totaling to millions of tons every year.
Alang beach (Gujurat, India) is one of the main ship breaking yards in the world.
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat, India.Alang is known as land of lakes and temples. However today Alang is known for being Asia's largest and world's one of the most important ShipRecyclingYard where various material like Melting scrap, CastIron Scrap (Beed), RollingMaterial, Profile Plates, Marine Machinery, Marine Engine, Diesel Generating Sets, Electric Motors and so many other items which are available in huge quantity of various qualities are mostly tested and certified by the world famous Lloyds Certifying Co. of England.
As per the international reports, more ships for demolition are expected for Alang as Ocean freight is very down. Presently, Alang & Sosiya has 94 ships under demolition.
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In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or stabbed by steel sliced from the hulls.
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published: 16 Apr 2014

Shipbreakers

This feature documentary profiles a bustling Indian shantytown where 40,000 people live and work in the most primitive conditions.

published: 21 Jun 2017

Echoes of Ship Breaking

The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns on his blow torch and focuses solely on weakening the structure of the very ship he stands on; right now he is working on the metal holdings around the mast. He stands away cautiously as the weakened mast is hooked on to a whinge and it's pulled down. The bulking mast hits the bottom of the hull, the boom reaches his ears and touches his skin, it reminds him a little bit of his village, of his childhood, when he would drop a metal bucket in well to collect water. With no time for nostalgia he gets back to cutting another part of the hull, he does this every day for 8-10 hours; his safety net is his experience.
He is one of the 66,00...

published: 17 Jul 2014

Scrapped: the deadly business of dismantling ships in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Workers though, enjoy none of the benefits of that profit; wages are barely enough to live on and there are no health and safety regulations to protect them. Injuries are a frequent occurrence and even death is not uncommon.
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The Wire Nest...life In Mumbai's Shipbreaking Yards

We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is an obscure & lucrative business for a few known as Ship breaking, Countless numbers of used ships are sent to developing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey where they are systematically broken down by the cheap labor hired by these ship breakers . 'The WireNest...Life In Mumbai's Ship-Breaking Yards' is a documentary on the condition of these workers, the majority who live in filthy and hazardous circumstances .This documentary specifically gives an insight on the conditions of the ship breaking workers in Mumbai the city which is the hub for many activities known and unknown. To build awareness and give ...

published: 24 Jan 2013

The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh: VICE INTL

There aren't too many places left in the world where the practice of ship breaking—scrapping old ships for metal—can still exist. These days, environmental and labor regulations in the developed world have displaced the practice to India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where cargo carriers are salvaged for their steel.
The largest vessels wind up on the shores of the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, where the industry has become a vital part of the country's urbanization. It employs roughly 200,000 workers and supplies the country with 80 percent of its steel. Ship breakers beach and dismantle vessels daily wearing flip­-flops and T-shirts. It's no easy task, considering ships are constructed to withstand the elements for the 30 years they spend operating on international waters. We decided t...

Gaddani, Sindh Province:
1. Wide pan of Gaddani breakers yard to "Sea Giant" tanker
2. Mid shot of sparks from oxy-acetylene cutter emerging through side of ship's hull
3. Close-up of cutting flame
4. Mid shot breaker wearing dark welding goggles
5. Mid shot cutting
6. Wide of men cutting with oxy-acetylene torches inside hull of Sea Giant tanker
7. Mid shot ship breaker at work
8. Cut section of Sea Giant' s hull torn off into sea
9. Wide of crane moving steel sections
10. Mid shot of breakers at work
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Fataullah Shah, ship-breaker:
"I've been in this business for the last 10 years. Now we have a lot of work. Before there wasn't much on. We are very happy and thank God we have a lot of work."
12. Wide of "Sea Giant" tanker
13. Mid shot cable passing thro...

published: 21 Jul 2015

Shipbreakers in Gadani beach, Pakistan

This is amazing, everybody knows the shipbreaking yard in Alang, India but there is also one in Gaddani or Gadani beach in Pakistan. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is a centre for the breaking up of derelict ocean-going vessels for scrap. The yard is located in Gadani, Pakistan, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi.
This is a compilation from the documentary "Workingman's Death", see http://www.workingmansdeath.com
In the 1980s,the Gadani yard was described as the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in India and Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with the Gadani yard producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced twenty years ago. A reduction in taxes on scrap met...

published: 02 Jan 2009

Pakistan's ship breaking industry picking up

Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
1. Various of the ship 'Flag Supplier' being dismantled
2. A watchman sitting at the beach
3. Various of workers dismantling the ship
4. Close up of a mechanised pulley in action pulling piece of the ship
5. A piece of ship being pulled into the sea
6. Ship breakerAqeel Khan standing on the beach
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Aqeel Khan, ship breaker:
"Work used to be brisk at the Gadani ship yards and once around 300 to 350 workers used to work in a single ship-breaking yard. But things have changed over the last few years and now barely 50 workers are employed in a single yard because of the non-availability of vessels."
8. Wide of empty ship-breaking yard at Gadani
9. Various of labourers cutting up pieces of iron
10. SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Mehran Mohannad...

published: 28 Jul 2015

Ship breaking and recycling with improved safety and technology

To find out more please visit: http://www.twi-global.com
This short programme outlines the work of the Divest project, which was devised to promote clear unbiased information on the complexities of the ship dismantling industry so that stakeholders in the work can make informed decisions.

World's largest ship breaking yard is in Gujarat - Alang

Indian labourers working at a ship breaking site in Alang, Gujarat, India.There are 185 plots to carry out the ship-recycling activities. This activity forms an industry by itself , as it provides around 30,000 jobs in Alang itself and generates steel totaling to millions of tons every year.
Alang beach (Gujurat, India) is one of the main ship breaking yards in the world.
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat, India.Alang is known as land of lakes and temples. However today Alang is known for being Asia's largest and world's one of the most important ShipRecyclingYard where various material like Melting scrap, CastIron Scrap (Beed), RollingMaterial, Profile Plates, Marine Machinery, Marine Engine, Diesel Generating Sets, Electric Motors and so m...

Where Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything | National Geographic

In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollutio...

In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or stabbed by steel sliced from the hulls.
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PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY: Mike Hettwer
EDITOR: Spencer Millsap
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In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or stabbed by steel sliced from the hulls.
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PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY: Mike Hettwer
EDITOR: Spencer Millsap
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Echoes of Ship Breaking

The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns ...

The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns on his blow torch and focuses solely on weakening the structure of the very ship he stands on; right now he is working on the metal holdings around the mast. He stands away cautiously as the weakened mast is hooked on to a whinge and it's pulled down. The bulking mast hits the bottom of the hull, the boom reaches his ears and touches his skin, it reminds him a little bit of his village, of his childhood, when he would drop a metal bucket in well to collect water. With no time for nostalgia he gets back to cutting another part of the hull, he does this every day for 8-10 hours; his safety net is his experience.
He is one of the 66,000 workers who work on the ship breaking yards at Alang in Gujarat and Darukhana in Mumbai. They migrate from UP, Orissa, Bihar and various other states across India in search of employment and better life. The job of these workers is to strip the raw materials from these ships and sell them to various integral industries i.e. construction, steel mills, to name a few.
The ship breaking industry as always been surrounded with myths and controversies. With many reports in the media mostly giving it a broad tag of "hazardous to environment" which is far from the truth, what ship-breaking actually does is reuse valuable raw materials striped from a dead ship, which would end up being more hazardous if left in the sea.
The primary pressing issue of ship breaking which gets skirted is its workers. The process of ship-breaking requires workers from the start to the end. Often to skirt costs; untrained contractual workers will be hired, safety equipment will be ignored and benefits will be skimmed.
In this documentary 'Echoes of Ship-Breaking' we'll be entering through the backdoor of the ship-breaking industry to see:
• How the industry processes labour and ships
• How ships are brought in and labourers are hired, and how it starts
• The industry's questionable history regarding worker laws
• Why and how ship breaking reached India
• How ship breaking affects the environment
• Breaking down the process of ship-breaking in India
• Its contribution to India and the future of ship breaking in India

The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns on his blow torch and focuses solely on weakening the structure of the very ship he stands on; right now he is working on the metal holdings around the mast. He stands away cautiously as the weakened mast is hooked on to a whinge and it's pulled down. The bulking mast hits the bottom of the hull, the boom reaches his ears and touches his skin, it reminds him a little bit of his village, of his childhood, when he would drop a metal bucket in well to collect water. With no time for nostalgia he gets back to cutting another part of the hull, he does this every day for 8-10 hours; his safety net is his experience.
He is one of the 66,000 workers who work on the ship breaking yards at Alang in Gujarat and Darukhana in Mumbai. They migrate from UP, Orissa, Bihar and various other states across India in search of employment and better life. The job of these workers is to strip the raw materials from these ships and sell them to various integral industries i.e. construction, steel mills, to name a few.
The ship breaking industry as always been surrounded with myths and controversies. With many reports in the media mostly giving it a broad tag of "hazardous to environment" which is far from the truth, what ship-breaking actually does is reuse valuable raw materials striped from a dead ship, which would end up being more hazardous if left in the sea.
The primary pressing issue of ship breaking which gets skirted is its workers. The process of ship-breaking requires workers from the start to the end. Often to skirt costs; untrained contractual workers will be hired, safety equipment will be ignored and benefits will be skimmed.
In this documentary 'Echoes of Ship-Breaking' we'll be entering through the backdoor of the ship-breaking industry to see:
• How the industry processes labour and ships
• How ships are brought in and labourers are hired, and how it starts
• The industry's questionable history regarding worker laws
• Why and how ship breaking reached India
• How ship breaking affects the environment
• Breaking down the process of ship-breaking in India
• Its contribution to India and the future of ship breaking in India

Scrapped: the deadly business of dismantling ships in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Wor...

Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Workers though, enjoy none of the benefits of that profit; wages are barely enough to live on and there are no health and safety regulations to protect them. Injuries are a frequent occurrence and even death is not uncommon.
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Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Workers though, enjoy none of the benefits of that profit; wages are barely enough to live on and there are no health and safety regulations to protect them. Injuries are a frequent occurrence and even death is not uncommon.
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The Wire Nest...life In Mumbai's Shipbreaking Yards

We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is...

We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is an obscure & lucrative business for a few known as Ship breaking, Countless numbers of used ships are sent to developing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey where they are systematically broken down by the cheap labor hired by these ship breakers . 'The WireNest...Life In Mumbai's Ship-Breaking Yards' is a documentary on the condition of these workers, the majority who live in filthy and hazardous circumstances .This documentary specifically gives an insight on the conditions of the ship breaking workers in Mumbai the city which is the hub for many activities known and unknown. To build awareness and give an insight on the deteriorating conditions of the workers. And the shocking lack of human consideration given to them. Take note as this time we go even deeper into the graveyard taking a closer glimpse into the hardships and tragedies these workers face, doing their job while constantly being under real mortal danger .The story of a family man, a lady who lost her family, a family who got compensation for their dead son, and the result of the workers strike for a fellow worker. A honest glimpse into the cogs that run the ship breaking industry.

We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is an obscure & lucrative business for a few known as Ship breaking, Countless numbers of used ships are sent to developing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey where they are systematically broken down by the cheap labor hired by these ship breakers . 'The WireNest...Life In Mumbai's Ship-Breaking Yards' is a documentary on the condition of these workers, the majority who live in filthy and hazardous circumstances .This documentary specifically gives an insight on the conditions of the ship breaking workers in Mumbai the city which is the hub for many activities known and unknown. To build awareness and give an insight on the deteriorating conditions of the workers. And the shocking lack of human consideration given to them. Take note as this time we go even deeper into the graveyard taking a closer glimpse into the hardships and tragedies these workers face, doing their job while constantly being under real mortal danger .The story of a family man, a lady who lost her family, a family who got compensation for their dead son, and the result of the workers strike for a fellow worker. A honest glimpse into the cogs that run the ship breaking industry.

The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh: VICE INTL

There aren't too many places left in the world where the practice of ship breaking—scrapping old ships for metal—can still exist. These days, environmental and ...

There aren't too many places left in the world where the practice of ship breaking—scrapping old ships for metal—can still exist. These days, environmental and labor regulations in the developed world have displaced the practice to India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where cargo carriers are salvaged for their steel.
The largest vessels wind up on the shores of the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, where the industry has become a vital part of the country's urbanization. It employs roughly 200,000 workers and supplies the country with 80 percent of its steel. Ship breakers beach and dismantle vessels daily wearing flip­-flops and T-shirts. It's no easy task, considering ships are constructed to withstand the elements for the 30 years they spend operating on international waters. We decided to check it out.
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The largest vessels wind up on the shores of the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, where the industry has become a vital part of the country's urbanization. It employs roughly 200,000 workers and supplies the country with 80 percent of its steel. Ship breakers beach and dismantle vessels daily wearing flip­-flops and T-shirts. It's no easy task, considering ships are constructed to withstand the elements for the 30 years they spend operating on international waters. We decided to check it out.
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Gaddani, Sindh Province:
1. Wide pan of Gaddani breakers yard to "Sea Giant" tanker
2. Mid shot of sparks from oxy-acetylene cutter emerging through side of ship's hull
3. Close-up of cutting flame
4. Mid shot breaker wearing dark welding goggles
5. Mid shot cutting
6. Wide of men cutting with oxy-acetylene torches inside hull of Sea Giant tanker
7. Mid shot ship breaker at work
8. Cut section of Sea Giant' s hull torn off into sea
9. Wide of crane moving steel sections
10. Mid shot of breakers at work
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Fataullah Shah, ship-breaker:
"I've been in this business for the last 10 years. Now we have a lot of work. Before there wasn't much on. We are very happy and thank God we have a lot of work."
12. Wide of "Sea Giant" tanker
13. Mid shot cable passing through pulley
14. Mid shot winch being operated
15. Close up pulley
16. Mid shot section of ship towed through sea
17. Mid shot prow of a ship
18. Mid shot breakers yard workers seen through porthole
19. Wide shot breakers yard
20. Mid shot power shovel moving cut metal
21. Mid shot men through porthole
22. Mid shot breakers yard
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard:
"We have made many technical advances. We can break a very large ship in about 3 to 4 months time. The ship breaking is always been running depending on the availability of vessels and recently the demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
24. Wide of plane flying over wreck of oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit'
25. Long shot 'Tasman Spirit' tanker
26. Wide of oil spill clean up operation continuing on beach
27. Mid shot oil spill clean up workers
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's ship-breaking industry has received a massive boost thanks to the arrival of world's second biggest oil tanker at a breakers yard close to the southern port city of Karachi.
This breakers yard on the Gaddani coastline, 40km (25 miles), east of Karachi, is the final resting place for the juggernaut supertanker 'The SeaGiant'.
Its massive capacity, 555,000 Dwt (deadweight tons), made it the second biggest oil tanker on earth.
The huge task of dismantling the French-built 'Sea Giant' is expected to revitalize Pakistan's ship-breaking industry and
create more jobs.
The industry on the edge of this sleepy town on the Arabian sea has been struggling to revive itself from a bearish spell in business.
During the 1990s the Gaddani industry broke 40 ships in a year, but business has dwindled to just over a dozen ships a year now.
The arrival of the gigantic supertanker, which used to carry half-a-million-tons of crude to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia,
is just break the industry was looking for.
M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard said that the recent "demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
The arrival of the giant ship comes only weeks after Pakistan suffered its worst environmental disaster when an oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit' spilled thousands of tons of crude on the sea-shores near the Karachi port.
The government is seeking 1 (b) billion US dollars in damages for the oil pollution caused from that disaster.
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Gaddani, Sindh Province:
1. Wide pan of Gaddani breakers yard to "Sea Giant" tanker
2. Mid shot of sparks from oxy-acetylene cutter emerging through side of ship's hull
3. Close-up of cutting flame
4. Mid shot breaker wearing dark welding goggles
5. Mid shot cutting
6. Wide of men cutting with oxy-acetylene torches inside hull of Sea Giant tanker
7. Mid shot ship breaker at work
8. Cut section of Sea Giant' s hull torn off into sea
9. Wide of crane moving steel sections
10. Mid shot of breakers at work
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Fataullah Shah, ship-breaker:
"I've been in this business for the last 10 years. Now we have a lot of work. Before there wasn't much on. We are very happy and thank God we have a lot of work."
12. Wide of "Sea Giant" tanker
13. Mid shot cable passing through pulley
14. Mid shot winch being operated
15. Close up pulley
16. Mid shot section of ship towed through sea
17. Mid shot prow of a ship
18. Mid shot breakers yard workers seen through porthole
19. Wide shot breakers yard
20. Mid shot power shovel moving cut metal
21. Mid shot men through porthole
22. Mid shot breakers yard
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard:
"We have made many technical advances. We can break a very large ship in about 3 to 4 months time. The ship breaking is always been running depending on the availability of vessels and recently the demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
24. Wide of plane flying over wreck of oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit'
25. Long shot 'Tasman Spirit' tanker
26. Wide of oil spill clean up operation continuing on beach
27. Mid shot oil spill clean up workers
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's ship-breaking industry has received a massive boost thanks to the arrival of world's second biggest oil tanker at a breakers yard close to the southern port city of Karachi.
This breakers yard on the Gaddani coastline, 40km (25 miles), east of Karachi, is the final resting place for the juggernaut supertanker 'The SeaGiant'.
Its massive capacity, 555,000 Dwt (deadweight tons), made it the second biggest oil tanker on earth.
The huge task of dismantling the French-built 'Sea Giant' is expected to revitalize Pakistan's ship-breaking industry and
create more jobs.
The industry on the edge of this sleepy town on the Arabian sea has been struggling to revive itself from a bearish spell in business.
During the 1990s the Gaddani industry broke 40 ships in a year, but business has dwindled to just over a dozen ships a year now.
The arrival of the gigantic supertanker, which used to carry half-a-million-tons of crude to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia,
is just break the industry was looking for.
M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard said that the recent "demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
The arrival of the giant ship comes only weeks after Pakistan suffered its worst environmental disaster when an oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit' spilled thousands of tons of crude on the sea-shores near the Karachi port.
The government is seeking 1 (b) billion US dollars in damages for the oil pollution caused from that disaster.
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This is amazing, everybody knows the shipbreaking yard in Alang, India but there is also one in Gaddani or Gadani beach in Pakistan. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is a centre for the breaking up of derelict ocean-going vessels for scrap. The yard is located in Gadani, Pakistan, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi.
This is a compilation from the documentary "Workingman's Death", see http://www.workingmansdeath.com
In the 1980s,the Gadani yard was described as the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in India and Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with the Gadani yard producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced twenty years ago. A reduction in taxes on scrap metal led to a modest resurgence at the Yard, which now employs around 6,000 workers.
In this clip we see in about 7 minutes how a ship is placed on the beach and breaking apart.

This is amazing, everybody knows the shipbreaking yard in Alang, India but there is also one in Gaddani or Gadani beach in Pakistan. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is a centre for the breaking up of derelict ocean-going vessels for scrap. The yard is located in Gadani, Pakistan, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi.
This is a compilation from the documentary "Workingman's Death", see http://www.workingmansdeath.com
In the 1980s,the Gadani yard was described as the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in India and Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with the Gadani yard producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced twenty years ago. A reduction in taxes on scrap metal led to a modest resurgence at the Yard, which now employs around 6,000 workers.
In this clip we see in about 7 minutes how a ship is placed on the beach and breaking apart.

Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
1. Various of the ship 'Flag Supplier' being dismantled
2. A watchman sitting at the beach
3. Various of workers dismantling the ship
4. Close up of a mechanised pulley in action pulling piece of the ship
5. A piece of ship being pulled into the sea
6. Ship breakerAqeel Khan standing on the beach
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Aqeel Khan, ship breaker:
"Work used to be brisk at the Gadani ship yards and once around 300 to 350 workers used to work in a single ship-breaking yard. But things have changed over the last few years and now barely 50 workers are employed in a single yard because of the non-availability of vessels."
8. Wide of empty ship-breaking yard at Gadani
9. Various of labourers cutting up pieces of iron
10. SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Mehran Mohannad, ship breaker:
"I have come here from the north of the country to work but the work is not consistent here. When I do get a job I send all the money to my family but when there is no work it becomes very difficult to survive."
11. Various of ship breaking yard
Karachi, Pakistan
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) : Mohammad UmarMemon, PakistanShipBreakers' Association:
"Pakistan's used to be number 2 after Taiwan in ship breaking. But with the passage of time and changing market conditions the industry has become virtually dead. The prices of ships that we used to purchase at US$150 per metric ton from the international market rose sharply to US$350 to US$400 per metric ton because of buying from China and Bangladesh. Because of this situation the importing of ships became unfeasible. But after negotiations with the government (the Pakistan government slashed customs duty and income tax on the industry), they agreed to give some incentives to the industry and now the industry today is getting back on its feet."
Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
13. Various of workers cutting ship plate
14. Various of bulldozer shifting pieces of metal
15. Workers loading a truck.
16. Transport vehicle leaving the yard.
17. Transport vehicle on Mehran Coastal highway to Karachi
LEAD IN:
A once booming industry in Pakistan, ship breaking, has been through difficult times in past few years.
Recent talks between industry representatives and the government, however, has meant the ship yards are about to get a new lease of life.
STORYLINE:
The 'Flag Supplier' a 12-thousand ton ship, was manufactured in Japan in 1978, spent her years sailing the seven seas and recently arrived here on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
She has been retired and has come here to the Gadani ship yards in Pakistan for dismantling.
Huge pieces of the ship are removed little by little, bit by bit.
Ship breaking used to be a huge industry for Pakistan but has declined over the years following a surge in the international prices for second-hand ships.
The Pakistani industry was also not able to compete with China, Bangladesh and India, where duties are much lower and more industry-friendly.
Aqeel Khan has been working at the ship breaking yards for the past 20 years.
He says the industry is not what it was.
Gadani ship breaking yard, once a huge local employer is now virtually empty.
Hundreds of workers had to be laid off because there were simply no ships to dismantle.
Ship breaker Mehran Mohannad travelled from the north of Pakistan to work in ship breaking.
He says the work is good -- when he gets it.
But the industry is slowly but surely recovering.
Representatives from the ship-breaking industry have been able to convince the Pakistani government to provide some incentives to revive the industry.
The government abolished customs duty on the import of second-hand ships, meaning it was profitable for the ships to be dismantled at Gadani again.
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Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
1. Various of the ship 'Flag Supplier' being dismantled
2. A watchman sitting at the beach
3. Various of workers dismantling the ship
4. Close up of a mechanised pulley in action pulling piece of the ship
5. A piece of ship being pulled into the sea
6. Ship breakerAqeel Khan standing on the beach
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Aqeel Khan, ship breaker:
"Work used to be brisk at the Gadani ship yards and once around 300 to 350 workers used to work in a single ship-breaking yard. But things have changed over the last few years and now barely 50 workers are employed in a single yard because of the non-availability of vessels."
8. Wide of empty ship-breaking yard at Gadani
9. Various of labourers cutting up pieces of iron
10. SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Mehran Mohannad, ship breaker:
"I have come here from the north of the country to work but the work is not consistent here. When I do get a job I send all the money to my family but when there is no work it becomes very difficult to survive."
11. Various of ship breaking yard
Karachi, Pakistan
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) : Mohammad UmarMemon, PakistanShipBreakers' Association:
"Pakistan's used to be number 2 after Taiwan in ship breaking. But with the passage of time and changing market conditions the industry has become virtually dead. The prices of ships that we used to purchase at US$150 per metric ton from the international market rose sharply to US$350 to US$400 per metric ton because of buying from China and Bangladesh. Because of this situation the importing of ships became unfeasible. But after negotiations with the government (the Pakistan government slashed customs duty and income tax on the industry), they agreed to give some incentives to the industry and now the industry today is getting back on its feet."
Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
13. Various of workers cutting ship plate
14. Various of bulldozer shifting pieces of metal
15. Workers loading a truck.
16. Transport vehicle leaving the yard.
17. Transport vehicle on Mehran Coastal highway to Karachi
LEAD IN:
A once booming industry in Pakistan, ship breaking, has been through difficult times in past few years.
Recent talks between industry representatives and the government, however, has meant the ship yards are about to get a new lease of life.
STORYLINE:
The 'Flag Supplier' a 12-thousand ton ship, was manufactured in Japan in 1978, spent her years sailing the seven seas and recently arrived here on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
She has been retired and has come here to the Gadani ship yards in Pakistan for dismantling.
Huge pieces of the ship are removed little by little, bit by bit.
Ship breaking used to be a huge industry for Pakistan but has declined over the years following a surge in the international prices for second-hand ships.
The Pakistani industry was also not able to compete with China, Bangladesh and India, where duties are much lower and more industry-friendly.
Aqeel Khan has been working at the ship breaking yards for the past 20 years.
He says the industry is not what it was.
Gadani ship breaking yard, once a huge local employer is now virtually empty.
Hundreds of workers had to be laid off because there were simply no ships to dismantle.
Ship breaker Mehran Mohannad travelled from the north of Pakistan to work in ship breaking.
He says the work is good -- when he gets it.
But the industry is slowly but surely recovering.
Representatives from the ship-breaking industry have been able to convince the Pakistani government to provide some incentives to revive the industry.
The government abolished customs duty on the import of second-hand ships, meaning it was profitable for the ships to be dismantled at Gadani again.
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Ship breaking and recycling with improved safety and technology

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This short programme outlines the work of the Divest project, which was devised to promote clear unbia...

To find out more please visit: http://www.twi-global.com
This short programme outlines the work of the Divest project, which was devised to promote clear unbiased information on the complexities of the ship dismantling industry so that stakeholders in the work can make informed decisions.

To find out more please visit: http://www.twi-global.com
This short programme outlines the work of the Divest project, which was devised to promote clear unbiased information on the complexities of the ship dismantling industry so that stakeholders in the work can make informed decisions.

World's largest ship breaking yard is in Gujarat - Alang

Indian labourers working at a ship breaking site in Alang, Gujarat, India.There are 185 plots to carry out the ship-recycling activities. This activity forms an...

Indian labourers working at a ship breaking site in Alang, Gujarat, India.There are 185 plots to carry out the ship-recycling activities. This activity forms an industry by itself , as it provides around 30,000 jobs in Alang itself and generates steel totaling to millions of tons every year.
Alang beach (Gujurat, India) is one of the main ship breaking yards in the world.
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat, India.Alang is known as land of lakes and temples. However today Alang is known for being Asia's largest and world's one of the most important ShipRecyclingYard where various material like Melting scrap, CastIron Scrap (Beed), RollingMaterial, Profile Plates, Marine Machinery, Marine Engine, Diesel Generating Sets, Electric Motors and so many other items which are available in huge quantity of various qualities are mostly tested and certified by the world famous Lloyds Certifying Co. of England.
As per the international reports, more ships for demolition are expected for Alang as Ocean freight is very down. Presently, Alang & Sosiya has 94 ships under demolition.
Courtesy: http://www.alangtoday.com/
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience!
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Indian labourers working at a ship breaking site in Alang, Gujarat, India.There are 185 plots to carry out the ship-recycling activities. This activity forms an industry by itself , as it provides around 30,000 jobs in Alang itself and generates steel totaling to millions of tons every year.
Alang beach (Gujurat, India) is one of the main ship breaking yards in the world.
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat, India.Alang is known as land of lakes and temples. However today Alang is known for being Asia's largest and world's one of the most important ShipRecyclingYard where various material like Melting scrap, CastIron Scrap (Beed), RollingMaterial, Profile Plates, Marine Machinery, Marine Engine, Diesel Generating Sets, Electric Motors and so many other items which are available in huge quantity of various qualities are mostly tested and certified by the world famous Lloyds Certifying Co. of England.
As per the international reports, more ships for demolition are expected for Alang as Ocean freight is very down. Presently, Alang & Sosiya has 94 ships under demolition.
Courtesy: http://www.alangtoday.com/
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience!
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Where Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything | National Geographic

In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or stabbed by steel sliced from the hulls.
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Echoes of Ship Breaking

The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns on his blow torch and focuses solely on weakening the structure of the very ship he stands on; right now he is working on the metal holdings around the mast. He stands away cautiously as the weakened mast is hooked on to a whinge and it's pulled down. The bulking mast hits the bottom of the hull, the boom reaches his ears and touches his skin, it reminds him a little bit of his village, of his childhood, when he would drop a metal bucket in well to collect water. With no time for nostalgia he gets back to cutting another part of the hull, he does this every day for 8-10 hours; his safety net is his experience.
He is one of the 66,000 workers who work on the ship breaking yards at Alang in Gujarat and Darukhana in Mumbai. They migrate from UP, Orissa, Bihar and various other states across India in search of employment and better life. The job of these workers is to strip the raw materials from these ships and sell them to various integral industries i.e. construction, steel mills, to name a few.
The ship breaking industry as always been surrounded with myths and controversies. With many reports in the media mostly giving it a broad tag of "hazardous to environment" which is far from the truth, what ship-breaking actually does is reuse valuable raw materials striped from a dead ship, which would end up being more hazardous if left in the sea.
The primary pressing issue of ship breaking which gets skirted is its workers. The process of ship-breaking requires workers from the start to the end. Often to skirt costs; untrained contractual workers will be hired, safety equipment will be ignored and benefits will be skimmed.
In this documentary 'Echoes of Ship-Breaking' we'll be entering through the backdoor of the ship-breaking industry to see:
• How the industry processes labour and ships
• How ships are brought in and labourers are hired, and how it starts
• The industry's questionable history regarding worker laws
• Why and how ship breaking reached India
• How ship breaking affects the environment
• Breaking down the process of ship-breaking in India
• Its contribution to India and the future of ship breaking in India

Scrapped: the deadly business of dismantling ships in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Workers though, enjoy none of the benefits of that profit; wages are barely enough to live on and there are no health and safety regulations to protect them. Injuries are a frequent occurrence and even death is not uncommon.
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The Wire Nest...life In Mumbai's Shipbreaking Yards

We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is an obscure & lucrative business for a few known as Ship breaking, Countless numbers of used ships are sent to developing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey where they are systematically broken down by the cheap labor hired by these ship breakers . 'The WireNest...Life In Mumbai's Ship-Breaking Yards' is a documentary on the condition of these workers, the majority who live in filthy and hazardous circumstances .This documentary specifically gives an insight on the conditions of the ship breaking workers in Mumbai the city which is the hub for many activities known and unknown. To build awareness and give an insight on the deteriorating conditions of the workers. And the shocking lack of human consideration given to them. Take note as this time we go even deeper into the graveyard taking a closer glimpse into the hardships and tragedies these workers face, doing their job while constantly being under real mortal danger .The story of a family man, a lady who lost her family, a family who got compensation for their dead son, and the result of the workers strike for a fellow worker. A honest glimpse into the cogs that run the ship breaking industry.

The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh: VICE INTL

There aren't too many places left in the world where the practice of ship breaking—scrapping old ships for metal—can still exist. These days, environmental and labor regulations in the developed world have displaced the practice to India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where cargo carriers are salvaged for their steel.
The largest vessels wind up on the shores of the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, where the industry has become a vital part of the country's urbanization. It employs roughly 200,000 workers and supplies the country with 80 percent of its steel. Ship breakers beach and dismantle vessels daily wearing flip­-flops and T-shirts. It's no easy task, considering ships are constructed to withstand the elements for the 30 years they spend operating on international waters. We decided to check it out.
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Gaddani, Sindh Province:
1. Wide pan of Gaddani breakers yard to "Sea Giant" tanker
2. Mid shot of sparks from oxy-acetylene cutter emerging through side of ship's hull
3. Close-up of cutting flame
4. Mid shot breaker wearing dark welding goggles
5. Mid shot cutting
6. Wide of men cutting with oxy-acetylene torches inside hull of Sea Giant tanker
7. Mid shot ship breaker at work
8. Cut section of Sea Giant' s hull torn off into sea
9. Wide of crane moving steel sections
10. Mid shot of breakers at work
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Fataullah Shah, ship-breaker:
"I've been in this business for the last 10 years. Now we have a lot of work. Before there wasn't much on. We are very happy and thank God we have a lot of work."
12. Wide of "Sea Giant" tanker
13. Mid shot cable passing through pulley
14. Mid shot winch being operated
15. Close up pulley
16. Mid shot section of ship towed through sea
17. Mid shot prow of a ship
18. Mid shot breakers yard workers seen through porthole
19. Wide shot breakers yard
20. Mid shot power shovel moving cut metal
21. Mid shot men through porthole
22. Mid shot breakers yard
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard:
"We have made many technical advances. We can break a very large ship in about 3 to 4 months time. The ship breaking is always been running depending on the availability of vessels and recently the demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
24. Wide of plane flying over wreck of oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit'
25. Long shot 'Tasman Spirit' tanker
26. Wide of oil spill clean up operation continuing on beach
27. Mid shot oil spill clean up workers
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's ship-breaking industry has received a massive boost thanks to the arrival of world's second biggest oil tanker at a breakers yard close to the southern port city of Karachi.
This breakers yard on the Gaddani coastline, 40km (25 miles), east of Karachi, is the final resting place for the juggernaut supertanker 'The SeaGiant'.
Its massive capacity, 555,000 Dwt (deadweight tons), made it the second biggest oil tanker on earth.
The huge task of dismantling the French-built 'Sea Giant' is expected to revitalize Pakistan's ship-breaking industry and
create more jobs.
The industry on the edge of this sleepy town on the Arabian sea has been struggling to revive itself from a bearish spell in business.
During the 1990s the Gaddani industry broke 40 ships in a year, but business has dwindled to just over a dozen ships a year now.
The arrival of the gigantic supertanker, which used to carry half-a-million-tons of crude to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia,
is just break the industry was looking for.
M. Ishaq Paracha, Managing Director of Gaddani's ship breaking yard said that the recent "demand of steel has picked up in the country and business is very good."
The arrival of the giant ship comes only weeks after Pakistan suffered its worst environmental disaster when an oil tanker 'Tasman Spirit' spilled thousands of tons of crude on the sea-shores near the Karachi port.
The government is seeking 1 (b) billion US dollars in damages for the oil pollution caused from that disaster.
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Shipbreakers in Gadani beach, Pakistan

This is amazing, everybody knows the shipbreaking yard in Alang, India but there is also one in Gaddani or Gadani beach in Pakistan. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is a centre for the breaking up of derelict ocean-going vessels for scrap. The yard is located in Gadani, Pakistan, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi.
This is a compilation from the documentary "Workingman's Death", see http://www.workingmansdeath.com
In the 1980s,the Gadani yard was described as the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in India and Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with the Gadani yard producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced twenty years ago. A reduction in taxes on scrap metal led to a modest resurgence at the Yard, which now employs around 6,000 workers.
In this clip we see in about 7 minutes how a ship is placed on the beach and breaking apart.

Pakistan's ship breaking industry picking up

Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
1. Various of the ship 'Flag Supplier' being dismantled
2. A watchman sitting at the beach
3. Various of workers dismantling the ship
4. Close up of a mechanised pulley in action pulling piece of the ship
5. A piece of ship being pulled into the sea
6. Ship breakerAqeel Khan standing on the beach
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Aqeel Khan, ship breaker:
"Work used to be brisk at the Gadani ship yards and once around 300 to 350 workers used to work in a single ship-breaking yard. But things have changed over the last few years and now barely 50 workers are employed in a single yard because of the non-availability of vessels."
8. Wide of empty ship-breaking yard at Gadani
9. Various of labourers cutting up pieces of iron
10. SOUNDBITE (Pushto) Mehran Mohannad, ship breaker:
"I have come here from the north of the country to work but the work is not consistent here. When I do get a job I send all the money to my family but when there is no work it becomes very difficult to survive."
11. Various of ship breaking yard
Karachi, Pakistan
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) : Mohammad UmarMemon, PakistanShipBreakers' Association:
"Pakistan's used to be number 2 after Taiwan in ship breaking. But with the passage of time and changing market conditions the industry has become virtually dead. The prices of ships that we used to purchase at US$150 per metric ton from the international market rose sharply to US$350 to US$400 per metric ton because of buying from China and Bangladesh. Because of this situation the importing of ships became unfeasible. But after negotiations with the government (the Pakistan government slashed customs duty and income tax on the industry), they agreed to give some incentives to the industry and now the industry today is getting back on its feet."
Gadani, Balochistan, Pakistan
13. Various of workers cutting ship plate
14. Various of bulldozer shifting pieces of metal
15. Workers loading a truck.
16. Transport vehicle leaving the yard.
17. Transport vehicle on Mehran Coastal highway to Karachi
LEAD IN:
A once booming industry in Pakistan, ship breaking, has been through difficult times in past few years.
Recent talks between industry representatives and the government, however, has meant the ship yards are about to get a new lease of life.
STORYLINE:
The 'Flag Supplier' a 12-thousand ton ship, was manufactured in Japan in 1978, spent her years sailing the seven seas and recently arrived here on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
She has been retired and has come here to the Gadani ship yards in Pakistan for dismantling.
Huge pieces of the ship are removed little by little, bit by bit.
Ship breaking used to be a huge industry for Pakistan but has declined over the years following a surge in the international prices for second-hand ships.
The Pakistani industry was also not able to compete with China, Bangladesh and India, where duties are much lower and more industry-friendly.
Aqeel Khan has been working at the ship breaking yards for the past 20 years.
He says the industry is not what it was.
Gadani ship breaking yard, once a huge local employer is now virtually empty.
Hundreds of workers had to be laid off because there were simply no ships to dismantle.
Ship breaker Mehran Mohannad travelled from the north of Pakistan to work in ship breaking.
He says the work is good -- when he gets it.
But the industry is slowly but surely recovering.
Representatives from the ship-breaking industry have been able to convince the Pakistani government to provide some incentives to revive the industry.
The government abolished customs duty on the import of second-hand ships, meaning it was profitable for the ships to be dismantled at Gadani again.
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World's largest ship breaking yard is in Gujarat - Alang

Indian labourers working at a ship breaking site in Alang, Gujarat, India.There are 185 plots to carry out the ship-recycling activities. This activity forms an industry by itself , as it provides around 30,000 jobs in Alang itself and generates steel totaling to millions of tons every year.
Alang beach (Gujurat, India) is one of the main ship breaking yards in the world.
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat, India.Alang is known as land of lakes and temples. However today Alang is known for being Asia's largest and world's one of the most important ShipRecyclingYard where various material like Melting scrap, CastIron Scrap (Beed), RollingMaterial, Profile Plates, Marine Machinery, Marine Engine, Diesel Generating Sets, Electric Motors and so many other items which are available in huge quantity of various qualities are mostly tested and certified by the world famous Lloyds Certifying Co. of England.
As per the international reports, more ships for demolition are expected for Alang as Ocean freight is very down. Presently, Alang & Sosiya has 94 ships under demolition.
Courtesy: http://www.alangtoday.com/
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Ship breaking

Ship breaking or ship demolition is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap. It may also be known as ship dismantling, ship cracking, ship recycling, or ship disposal. Modern ships have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years before corrosion, metal fatigue and a lack of parts render them uneconomical to run. Ship breaking allows the materials from the ship, especially steel, to be recycled and made into new products. This lowers the demand for mined iron ore and reduces energy use in the steel-making process. Equipment on board the vessel can also be reused. While ship breaking is, in theory, sustainable, there are concerns about the use of poorer countries without stringent environmental legislation. It is also considered one of the world's most dangerous industries and very labour-intensive.

In 2012, roughly 1,250 ocean ships were broken down, and their average age is 26 years. In 2013, Asia made up 92% of the tonnage of vessels demolished, out of a world total of 29,052,000 tonnes. India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan have the highest market share and are global centres of ship breaking, with Alang being the largest 'ships graveyard' in the world. The largest sources of ships are states of China, Greece and Germany respectively, although there is a greater variation in the source of carriers versus their disposal. The ship breaking yards of the Indian subcontinent employ 100,000 workers as well as providing a large amount of indirect jobs. Water-craft produce 10% of India's steel needs.